LadyCrimson

He did do very well, all things considered, with LotR - very entertaining movies that were more than just "decnt movies based on a book", if you know what I mean. I can't really imagine anyone else doing any better, so I'd view this as a hopeful thing. But I didn't like King Kong much ...

:D I don't think I quite see that, but it's kinda cool that someone saw something different in the image. Also makes me wonder what I could do with a sandal ....

I see your point and sometimes it's a very valid one. But I disagree that post-apoc world has to be grey and colorless. Humans like color - I suspect they'd find a way to inject into the environment in some way or another. Movies/media have used the same post-apoc like setting for years - it wouldn't hurt to stretch the imagination and think of something different.

Wrong. Although I don't love him in a big romantic way...and I initially found him irritating...but he grew on me and eventually my Kotor2 group would always consist of Atton and Disciple.

Likely it's my old graphics system, but it looks a bit jaggedy. Otherwise nice tho. I wish I could play at resolutions like that.

Re: the original posted pictures - I'm getting pretty tired of the somber grey/metal grey/brown/blue grey etc. post-apoc colors in games, myself. At least carried to the extremes a lot of games seem to do. Plus yeah, I don't think they look that impressive art-wise. Not terrible or anything, but nothing special, certainly. In the 'gets the job done' vein mostly.

For 80's music people, a satire from the film Music & Lyrics, w/Hugh Grant (who does his own singing). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0A7dtdc-nU

The past few days been trying to capture images within moving water drops. Coming to the realization that it requires: one, more patience/luck than I typically have, and two, a multiple flash-unit rig that I don't have. But it passes the time and is fun to try. Edit: And now I've cleaned out 3MB of old pic attachments from the forum. *file cleaning mode*

310 to Yuma. Great performances, so-so modern Western.

If people really chased after me, I'd go look up a few movie actors ...

My main problem with steep hills and clutches was the roll-back as you let the clutch out and try to get the (wimpy late 70's/early 80's auto) acceleration going at the same time etc. Every time I went to SF, there was always someone right on my arse and I sweated either rolling back into their bumper or killing the engine or shooting forward with a huge jolting jerk, spilling my drink, hahaha. It's not that bad in reality, but I find the psychological aspect irritating. My '98 Legacy came with some feature that helps prevent the roll-back, so it's not as much of a factor anymore.

Harry Potter #5. Almost hated it the first viewing ... then after Googling Potter plot references and watching it a 2nd time, it became mildly tolerable. Nice dark atmosphere and camerawork, and a fun 'evil' character in that headmistress, but otherwise rather boring. And if you haven't read the books, it's not a good movie. The other 4, at least, allowed the non-reader to still have a fair entertaining time, in terms of a film series on it's own, with the 4th being the best one, imo.

Learned on a stick too ... only one of my cars was an automatic. My current is a stick shift, mostly because that's all they had on the lot the day I wanted to buy. There used to be a slightly more noticable difference gas milage-wise between stick and automatics in the 70's but by now it's so neglible it's no reason to use one or the other. I was always of the opinon that even back then, if you drove like a lead-foot race car driver, it wouldn't have been much difference. :D I like stick shifts - for one thing, it keeps my driver-attention from wandering so much. For another, there's just something more "exciting" about driving curving roads while shifting up and down. But yeah, if you do a lot of stop-and-go driving, or live in someplace like, say, San Francisco with all the intersections on steep hills, they're a pain in the arse.

The only things you need to think about are memory capacity and write transfer speed of the card, if you have a choice. Otherwise there's no working difference between the different SD cards ... except how easily you can misplace a card that tiny. I've read that if your devices are really old, they might not recognize the larger capacity (above 2GB) SDHC cards, but it probably doesn't effect majority of people these days, and it doesn't sound like that's one of your options anyway.

I cooked a lot of food today. We've had some cold mornings (for coastal California, that is) - so coupled with my early-to-bed/early-rising habits of late, I've also been trying to take some neat photographs of the early morning frost on plants. A few each morning. Perfect round dew drops frozen on grassblades and such. But nothing truly special has come from it yet. :D

I assume by that you mean antibiotic soaps and cleasners and such, not prescription antibiotics some folks actually need to combat certain problems. My family has always been big on avoiding those type of soaps. They're completely unneccesary ... as are a lot of the antibiotic prescriptions people go home with. Doctors need to learn to not cave in to patients who demand they 'do something' to make them feel better when there's nothing to be done, if you know what I mean. Or at least, if they're concerned/irritated by such patients, prescribe more placebos instead of the real stuff. I'm not sure we could stop resistant strains from coming along - only delay it. But we need those delays to give us more time to come up with periodic new solutions/treatments.

If you absolutely love a written story, it's so rare that the film ever lives up to it in your mind. Even if you don't mind/understand the plot short-cuts due to length that generally have to occur, they mess up the ending, or alter characters too much, etc. What happens to me more often is that I'll (personally) think a story is 'so-so' and then they turn it into a really awesome movie. Like Shawshank Redemption.

I'm finding Hellgate slightly more entertaining when I got past Act2. It's still repetitive with plenty of annoyances tho. It also seems very geared to the Templar (Guardian/Blademaster) melee classes ... they're the most 'fun' to play and seem the best thought out in terms of class vs. environment.

To quote my husband - "Basically just about everything that the average joe pc user can go buy is crap." He likes/uses McAfee Professional - or Enterprise, or something. I've never had any problems getting around/through it in terms of internet stuff, or anything else, on our network or the gaming pc he set up for us. No popups, no 'can't do that/can't connect' for game related things, etc. Which is good, since I wouldn't know the first thing about how to alter settings or anything of that nature. But as indicated by his quote, he acknowleges that the McAfee that home users typically can purchase is terrible.

You're now "at?" Are you working your way through all the ST movies or something? First Contact was the best of the Next Generation films ... the ones after that were all ... meh. As to movies I've seen lately - I've seen quite a few, but mostly older ones I felt like re-living, like In The Line of Fire and Robocop. And whoever said that Army of Darkness doesn't bear repeated viewings - I'd agree. It has some great comedy moments, but tipped too far into the parody of the absurd overall and I think it showed.

Finished Overlord twice (it's not a long game, even for a slowpoke like myself). Very slowly working my way through the Orange Box (Portal is cool ... HL2 is ok for a FPS) and Hellgate:London. Hellgate's main problem, imo, is the dreary gunmetal and brown colors and sameness in construction of most of its levels. It doesn't take long at all before you enter a new area and say to yourself "Haven't I been here already?" Sure, the dungeons are 'randomly generated', but it all looks the same nonetheless. Also, the skill trees seem a bit lacking. The rest of the game is pretty much Diablo2 in 3D but with a sci-fi/gun-tech theme - and the ability of a 1st person perspective if you wish it. You have 'mods' instead of gems and runes, you have 'analyers' instead of ID scrolls, similar class skills, and so on. So the game is playable and semi-addictive just because it has the D2 feel in terms of items and simple monster-bashing, but the design makes the entire game feel like you're doing nothing but Countess or Baal runs over and over the entire time. Short bursts of play, fine, long-term addiction - I doubt it.

The new patch for Overlord lets us play a split-screen game, which is kinda cool. Competitive play is based on score so you don't have to beat each other up if you don't want, plus there's more true co-op with a singular goal. But there's not enough maps, so still limited. Wish more PC games did this. This game, tho, is so funny to play together, with all the minions running around looting and pillaging. Not that the screenie shows that aspect ... no screenshot program on the TV computer yet so no shot of us actually playing together. :/ The other picture is from the single-player game - the funny animation when you sacrifice minions to forge upgrades for you gear. All the minions run to and leap into the molten pot.

Got around to seeing PotC-3. The end battles were fun to watch, but boy, that movie is a mess. SpiderMan-3 was a lot better. Much more fun. But I still like the 2nd one best.

It does seem odd that the cell company would accept the contract in the first place, if the ID was expired at the time of signing. I'd definitely be irritated over that. As some others said, just try to give them a current ID or something and get rehooked up. I still personally dislike cellphones on general principle, and those contracts suck any way you slice it, but I do like my little pre-paid phone, that I aquired recently so hubby (and only hubby) can call me. If you plan on not using a cell for too much yakking/texting/work etc, pre-paid is the way to go, imo. Unless you want a really specific cell unit, that is. The selection for pre-paid is usually limited.

Because it's a fairly close-up angle of a woman who's extremely bent over, arms akimbo, on a motorbike that's slide-angled a bit to one side? I don't see her as being all stretched out ... doesn't look odd to me, and she looks fine when running around normally on her two feet. Yes, we did. Or hubby did. I don't know if it's the "correct" one for the size of our TV, tho. I've noticed 'widescreen' comes in several forms. Drives me crazy with movie DVD's, heh.